PURPOSE: To provide a crawler belt type vehicle which is constituted to have both excellent rectilinear advance stability and drivability even during running on a rut in a road by a method wherein front wheels having canvas thrust in the same direction as that of the canvas thrust of a crawler belt is mounted on the crawler belt type vehicle.
CONSTITUTION: A crawler belt type vehicle 1 is a light truck type rear-wheel- drive crawler type six-wheel vehicle 6 having a car body 4 comprising, for example, a cabin 2 and a load-carrying platform 3. A pair of right and left rear wheels 5 for drive, front wheels 15 for steering, and idle wheels 6 located therebetween are disposed. The wheels 5, 6, and 15 have respective pneumatic tires made of rubber. A crawler belt 20 having flexibility is run around and between the rear wheels 5 and the idle wheels 6 and the front wheels 15 have camber thrust in the same direction as the camber thrust direction of the crawler belt 20 are mounted. As a result, even during running on a rut in a road, the amount of yaw moment by which the direction of the car body 4 is about to change is reduced and rectilinear advance stability is ensured.
UCHIBABA KOUICHI
YOSHIMURA HAJIME
OHTSU TIRE & RUBBER CO LTD